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VIII. 
THE ORANGE PIPPIN. 
The Orange Pippin is cultivated in different parts of the 
County of Hereford under different names, and has been 
not unfrequently confounded with the Loan Pearmain, 
which it somewhat resembles in form and colour; but it is 
a larger and a much more sweet apple. The name does not 
seem perfectly appropriate, for the colour of the apple is 
very different from that of an orange : but when the crop of 
fruit is perfectly ripe, and seen at such a distance that the 
red and yellow colour are mingled and blended together, the 
effect on the eye may be conceived to be not very widely 
different from that which a similar crop of very ripe Seville 
Oranges would produce ; and from this circumstance the 
Orange Pippin possibly derived its name. It is not appa¬ 
rently a very old variety; for young trees of it still grow 
freely and bear well: but I have seen trees of it, which were 
at least eighty years old : and therefore the variety can now 
scarcely deserve culture, though it is certainly an excellent 
cider apple, and its yellow pulp communicates a beautiful 
golden tinge to the juices of other varieties. The specific 
gravity of its juice is about 1074. I am ignorant of its 
native country, and of its history previously to the last 
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thirty years. 
